Evaluating Treatment Methods for Depressive Disorders
Abstract
The authors describe a retrospective study to evaluate ECT and antidepressant drugs in the hospital treatment of depressive disorders. Using the Self-Rating Depression Scale as a measure of severity of illness, they found that patients selected for ECT were more depressed than patients selected for drug treatment. Comparison of data obtained from the two groups indicated that the "kinetics of treatment response" and the final treatment results obtained with ECT were superior to those obtained with antidepressant drugs.
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